The Rare Ahadith
Al-Kāfi|Volume 6|Book 6|Chapter 11
عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْمَدَائِنِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ نَهَرَانِ مُؤْمِنَانِ وَ نَهَرَانِ كَافِرَانِ فَأَمَّا الْمُؤْمِنَانِ فَالْفُرَاتُ وَ نِيلُ مِصْرَ وَ أَمَّا الْكَافِرَانِ فَدِجْلَةُ وَ نَهَرُ بَلْخَ .
5. A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from ‘Abd Allah ibn Ibrahim al-Mada’iniy who has said the following: “Abu al-Hassan عليه السلام, has said, ‘There are two unbelieving canals and two believing ones. The two believing canals are Euphrates and Nile of Misr (Egypt) and the unbelieving canals are Tigris and the canal of Balkh.’”
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (2/244)
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